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Magali, 45, is a wine producer in the south of France. She’s a widow, and her best friend, Isabelle, decides to find her a new husband. She puts an ad in the local newspaper and finds a nice man, Gérald. At Isabelle’s daughter’s wedding, Magali eventually meets Gérald. But there’s another man around, Etienne…

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Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

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Themroc is a very unusual 1973 French film by director Claude Faraldo. Made on a very low budget with no intelligible dialog, Themroc tells the story of a French blue collar worker who rebels against modern society, reverting into an urban caveman.

The Themroc history is about a typical middle-aged French worker who rebels against the absurdity of everyday life. He shares an apartment with his ​​mother and sister, every day goes to boring and non-profit work. But one day, all of a sudden, in complete frustration, he destroys all his property, demolishes the walls of his apartment, it literally turns into a cave and starts to act like a Neanderthal. His rebellion, his anti-social activities are amazingly attractive to the neighbors, and they soon begin to do the same. Police trying to find a way to contain his behavior.

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Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug, which was a gift of Franca’s stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings, saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man’s visit becomes a nightmare. He kidnaps Franca and says he killed his wife on that same yellow rug. Then Franca kills the man. But is that really all that has happened? And who was that strange man?

Kevin Lyons on EOFFTV wrote:
By the early 1980s, the giallo – that uniquely Italian blend of thriller and horror tropes laced with plenty of sex – was facing its final curtain. Dario Argento would return to the form throughout the decade but just about everyone else was getting ready to give up on it as Italian horror lurched towards the more visceral in the wake of Lucio Fulci’s worldwide success with Zombi 2 / Zombie Flesheaters Zombie [1979]. Those gialli that were still being made seemed a pale imitation of the excesses of their 1970s forebears.

La casa del tappeto giallo [1982], shown once on late night British television and released on video in the States by Lightning Video under the direct translation The House of the Yellow Carpet, is one of the few non-Argento 80s gialli that rewards repeated viewings. Directed by Carlo Lizzani [not previously known for his genre work], the film is an unusual giallo in that it forgoes the usually flashy direction and camerawork that we normally associate with the genre, focussing instead more on uncommonly strong performances and a clammy, claustrophobic atmosphere. It never quite escapes its roots as a stage play – the entire film unfolds in a limited number of sets with a cast of just four major roles – but remains an interesting late addition to the giallo canon.

Vittorio Mezzogiomo and Béatrice Romand star as married couple Antonio and Franca whose seemingly happy relationship masks a simmering cauldron of resentment and anxiety. Antonio is starting to suspect Franca of having an affair [she ecstatically cries out another man’s name during an erotic dream] and the decision to sell a yellow carpet given to the couple by Franca’s father but which is too large for their apartment brings the strange Professor Achille Cimatti [Erland Josephson] into their lives. Cimatti has spent nineteen years in prison for murdering his wife on a carpet just like the one the couple are selling and terrifies Franca [temporarily left alone when Antonio sets off to retrieve his car which has been towed away] to the point of hysteria – and then a woman turns up at the door claiming to be Cimatti’s wife…

Despite having been made by a director not previously known for making gialli, La casa del tappeto giallo never skimps on those elements that we’ve come to expect and love from our violent Italian thrillers – random bouts of violence [not as graphic as we’d expect perhaps, but still shocking for its unexpectedness], a complex, twisting storyline, a great if atypical score from Stelvio Cipriani and some very odd ideas about sex. The only thing missing, forced upon it by the limited number of locations and the small cast, are those shoals of red herrings that often threatened to derail many an inferior giallo by resulting in overly-complicated plots that tended to unravel as soon as you thought about them.

What is unexpected – and very welcome – is the quality of the performances. If we’re honest, no-one really expects decent acting in a giallo so the fact that La casa del tappeto giallo features such strong turns from an uncommonly talented cast is particularly appreciated. Frequent Ingmar Bergman collaborator Josephson in particular is outstanding as the creepy Cimatti, but is given a good run for his money by Béatrice Romand who plays the victim as someone as disturbed and unhinged as her tormentor. The only other major players, Mezzogiomo as the suspicious husband and Milena Vukotic as Cimatti’s weird and not-quite-what-she-seems-to-be wife are also extremely good in their roles.

The script, taken directly from Aldo Selleri’s stage play Theatre at Home, is also unusual for a giallo, relying on sharp, witty dialogue and the claustrophobic settings for much of its effect. It creates space for the excellent performances while not skimping on those elements that give the giallo its distinctiveness.

La casa del tappeto giallo is an unusual addition to the giallo canon and one that really hasn’t been given the attention it deserves, due no doubt to its relative scarcity. The Lightning Video release – so far as I can tell the only English language home video release – has long been out of print and the surprise British television broadcast has never been repeated. When you consider the amount of crap that has been released under the giallo banner on DVD around the world, the elusiveness of La casa del tappeto giallo is all the more galling. It won’t appeal to those who value the gialli for their violence [though the scene where Cimatti injects heroin directly into his eyeball is enough to make even the most hardened giallo watcher wince] but should be required viewing for anyone looking for an unusual, stylish and brilliantly performed thriller. Let’s hope someone gets it out on disc soon.

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From Channel 4 Film:
Factory worker Piccoli gets into trouble when he’s caught watching his boss shag a secretary. It’s the final straw. Oppressed by the system, hounded by his mother (Herviale) and bored witless by his menial job, Piccoli cracks. He goes home, takes a sledgehammer to his possessions, turns his room into a cave and starts grunting like a horny Neanderthal before making a move on his sister, Romand.

The news crews love it, the police don’t – especially when Piccoli racks up a police officer on a spit and barbecues him for supper. Soon the neighbours are copying his lead and Paris begins to resemble an X-certificate version of The Land That Time Forgot. Faraldo’s statements on society’s treatment of the disenfranchised, its sheep mentality and blinkered media worship may be blunt, but his anarchic film (which contains almost no discernible dialogue) is the indescribably weird and hilarious product of an acrid imagination.

By Steven Puchalski:
Barely released in the U.S. and ignored by all but the most fanatical arthouse deviants, this surreal French satire is steeped in pitch-black weirdness. And even when writer/director Claude Faraldo loses his (tenuous) intellectual footing and settles for pure gonzo silliness, this surrealistic vision of an Everyman’s mental breakdown is worth a look, if only for its audacity.

But the most inspired aspect of this Working Class Rant is the fact that nobody on-screen utters a single word of intelligible dialogue, with the entire story told in grunts, howls or simple gibberish. At first glance, the middle-aged Themroc (Michel Piccoli) seems like your typical, brutish, dirty-undershirted factory laborer. And his day goes straight into the crapper once he arrives at his dreary job, and is called onto the carpet after playing voyeur on a manager and his leggy secretary. With a lifestyle this demeaning and repetitious, it’s no big surprise when Themroc suddenly goes bonkers, and for the first time in his miserable life, breaks free of his 9-to-5 shackles.

The second he gets home, this disgruntled wacko wrecks his apartment (unlike modern-day Americans, who’d prefer to grab a gun and shoot their boss) and begins acting like a modern-day Neanderthal. To the dismay of his grey-haired hag of a mom, Themroc begins fondling his sister and transforms his dreary li’l flat into a literal urban cave (to match his new-found primitive desires) by knocking a huge, ragged hole in the side of his building, then tossing all his modern conveniences into the courtyard.

This crude ‘n’ rude social satire grabs Civilized Behavior by the balls and twists ’em off in the name of audacious laughs and puddle-deep polemics. Without question, it’s best appreciated by every working class slob who ever wanted to chuck it all into the trash and revert back to simpler, Cro-Magnon pleasures of the flesh.

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